Real-Time Broadcast Media Systems Engineer

Eccalon, LLC; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Eccalon seeks a Broadcast Media Systems Software Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, high-throughput streaming systems. You will work on distributed pipelines ingesting and delivering data for analytics, ML, monitoring, and mission-critical apps.

Join a team focused on reliability, performance, and scalability, collaborating with data engineers, platform engineers, and product teams. Proficiency in C/C++/Rust and experience with FFmpeg/GStreamer/TSDuck are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Systems programming for real-time applications in C/C++/Rust.
• Experience with memory management, pointers, and multi-threading optimizations.
• Strong knowledge of UDP/TCP/IP networking and socket programming.
• Experience with broadcast/media workflows and MPEG-TS containers.
• Proficiency in Go or Python for stream orchestration and control-plane development.
• Familiarity with FFmpeg, GStreamer, and TSDuck is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data streaming pipelines.
• Develop and operate transport and broadcast media architectures.
• Implement low-level wrappers for core networking and codecs.
• Optimize systems for throughput, latency, and resource efficiency.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and metrics for streaming apps.
• Collaborate with broadcast engineering and product teams.

Skills

Low-Level programming

Go or Python

UDP/TCP/IP networking

Media transport (MPEG-TS)

Python or Bash scripting

Manual memory management

Concurrency optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

FFmpeg

GStreamer

TSDuck

libsrt

librist

RTMP

Job description

Eccalon seeks a Broadcast Media Systems Software Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, high-throughput streaming systems. You will work on distributed pipelines ingesting and delivering data for analytics, ML, monitoring, and mission-critical apps.

Join a team focused on reliability, performance, and scalability, collaborating with data engineers, platform engineers, and product teams. Proficiency in C/C++/Rust and experience with FFmpeg/GStreamer/TSDuck are highly valued.